Address as cognitive and communicative regulator of speech behavior: types and functions

Recieved: 08/24/2025

Accepted: 10/01/2025

Keywords: speech behavior, regulator, cooperative principle, cognitive function, pragmatic function

DOI Number: 10.55959/MSU-2074-1588-19-28-4-1

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Molchanova G.G. Address as cognitive and communicative regulator of speech behavior: types and functions. // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 2025. Vol. 28. Issue 4. 9-24 https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU-2074-1588-19-28-4-1.

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Molchanova G.G. (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Abstract

The paper presents an address as one of the forms of speech behavior in the regulated spheres of communication. Regulated communication standards of speech etiquette. The trends in the most typical forms of address are identified on the basis of the observation over the surveys of preferable choices of the different forms of address, such as the following:

1. Address as a regulator of speech behavior in the public communicative

situation.

2. Address as a regulator of speech behavior in an aspect of a literary text.

3. Address as an effective means of implicit literary text decoding.

4. Address as a deviation from the regulated speech behavior and a source

of the new knowledge.

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